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In the most nerve-racking minutes of a game, basketball boils down to a simple equation: the ball is in the best shooter's hands, and the scoreboard is on a knife-edge. That is exactly how the "Warriors" reached overtime against the "Nuggets": Stephen Curry took on every decision in the closing stre...
After speaking with the Dallas point guard, you realize you are dealing not only with an NBA star but also with an eager student rushing to clear an academic debt. Kyrie Irving is convinced that the roar of the crowd does not drown out the professor’s voice, and his years on the court have only stre...
When a club whose very name has long been a synonym for stability and common sense changes its head coach, it inevitably sparks a storm of questions. In the Spurs’ case that effect is amplified by a hundred indisputable facts: Gregg Popovich built a system that sustained not only championships but t...
Europe’s summer is once again about the big game. EuroBasket 2025 promises a rare concentration of NBA stars—which means high pace, unconventional coaching choices, and tightly contested tactical battles. According to ESPN, the tournament’s leading faces are Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and L...
1. When Lightning Strikes Twice: The Roots of the Comparison Any attempt to peer beyond the horizon of an NBA season is like playing “Name That Tune” with your ears covered: an injury to a star can shatter even the most crystal-clear forecasts in an instant. Yet the parallels between today’s you...
He fills stadiums, breaks streaming records, and at the same time astonishes the world with hefty wagers. It seems no major sporting event passes without a story about how much the Canadian superstar rapper Drake has staked on one team or another to win. The meme “Drake’s latest bet” has become an a...
Veteran’s New Home: A Return to Texas Soil League fans have long grown accustomed to Kevin Durant’s nomadic career. Over eighteen seasons the forward wore the colors of Seattle/Oklahoma City, Golden State, Brooklyn, and Phoenix, and now, at 36, he has once again moved closer to his collegiate ro...
Before "Miami" faced "San Antonio," the buzz around Victor Wembanyama's phenomenal height flared up again. Bam Adebayo was asked what it is like to go up against someone you literally have to look up to. The Heat center calmly noted that in the NBA ultra-tall players are not an exotic anomaly but ev...
The 2024/25 season ended early for the San Antonio super-rookie: in February, Victor Wembanyama was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. Without the Frenchman, the "Spurs" finished the regular season 34–48 and missed the playoffs. In March, the center successfully underwent sur...
The uproar around the arrests of Portland’s head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami shooting guard Terry Rozier has begun to subside — and the mechanics and scale of the alleged scheme have come to the fore. On October 23, the FBI reported the arrest of 34 people as part of a federal investigation i...
